Fish migration is just one of the many environmental trends
the report assesses. But it is particularly salient given the role we’re seeing
fisheries play in exacerbating tensions in other parts of the world –
particularly the South China Sea, as Vietnam, Japan, China and others struggle
over rights to fish in contested territorial waters. One has to wonder, as the
Arctic opens up and commercial fishing becomes viable, will we see similar
tensions arise between neighboring states in the Article Circle? Perhaps.